"The Deadly Choices at Memorial" for The New York Times Magazine, August 25, 2009. Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, National Magazine Award, Dart Award for Journalism and Trauma, Sigma Delta Chi Award, National Headliner Award.

"The Ebola Ward," a series chronicling the Ebola outbreak from an American-run clinic in rural Liberia, for The New York Times.

"A Queens High Rise Where Fear, Death and Myth Collided" for The New York Times, December 19, 2012. At the Sand Castle apartment complex, the days after the storm included hardship, wild rumors — and the last hours of an 89-year-old veteran living alone. Mike Berger Award; Beat Reporting Award-Association of Health Care Journalists.

"Life and Death Choices as South Africans Ration Dialysis Care" for ProPublica, December 15, 2010.

Collected Stories for The New York Times

Stories on Hurricane Isaac for The Times-Picayune, summer, 2012.

"Citing Urgent Need, U.S. Calls on Hospitals to Hone Disaster Plans" for The New York Times, March 11, 2014.